just ignore and let this one die

Me too.

It's funny, but even though everyone in my family has a near-supergenius IQ, all of us love reality TV. We're brilliant, but we have crap taste.

Stupid stupid SL av meshes!

The greater the mind, the more need there is for simple

I might actually get interested if I could come to YOUR party. Just saying.

Maybe LL should have hired her.

The greater the mind, the more need there is for simple pleasures.

So if you are all genuises and like reality TV, and I despise reality TV that means I'm.......

Maybe . . . maybe not.

The British National Party (BNP) is active in SL, has a group, and (at least last time I checked) a headquarters in world. It is an offshoot of the old fascist National Front: until last year, when the courts ruled it discriminatory, membership was restricted to Caucasians. They propose the repatriation of all non Caucasians from Britain. LL is, at some level, aware of their existence, because they keep getting ARed for the overtly racist signs that they put up.

I'm afraid that I don't have a problem with a company -- LL, or whomever -- showing some ethical backbone. Would you critique an investment company that offered only "ethical" investments? Would you, before the end of Apartheid, have done business with a company that did business with South Africa? I make these kinds of decisions every day: I don't buy from companies that employ third-world sweatshops, or that don't engage in fair trade practices. And I do, in what ways I can, register my protest against those who do. That's all I am doing here.

It's easy to forget that Second Life is not a democracy: it's a privately-owned fiefdom. I am anticensorship, for the greatest part, but "free speech" is only half of the equation: you also need responsive mechanisms for governance that counterbalance the lunatic fringe, the unethical, the racist, and so forth that "free speech" allows voice to. We don't have those in SL: we have a sort of benevolent dictatorship that allows anyone to say pretty much whatever they want so long as the corporation doesn't find it offensive, without providing the democratic tools to respond.

If SL were an actual democratic state, I would trust that the mechanisms of democracy would keep the ethical ship on an even keel. Instead, we have a private corporation -- no different in that respect from Dow Chemical itself -- which makes top-down decisions about what IT views as ethically permissible. Given that I don't have a "vote" here to record my opposition, I take the same approach to LL that I take to any otherwise unresponsive corporation: I protest.

(Sorry, I hope that doesn't sound grumpy. I don't want it to sound grumpy. . . .)

Only reality shows I watch are sports. Like football, and baseball.

I have a bit of a peeve on "Discriminatory" groups. Obviously thing like the KKK and such as the one Scylla mentioned obviously are of no good, but what about Freedom of Association? Groups of all sorts of Ethnic makeup are formed for the betterment and protection of their people. They operate legally, and do not otherwise act negatively toward outsiders. They are called Cultural Associations, Defense leagues, all sorts of tings. They are usually applauded and encouraged. But when the makeup of that group happens to be White, regardless of what the group does with itself, it is held up as racist, discriminatory, and exclusionary. This a generalization of course, but there is a double standard.

The greater the mind, the more need there is for simple pleasures.

So if you are all genuises and like reality TV, and I despise reality TV that means I'm.......

The counterbalance to lunatic fringe free speech is free speech from sensible people.

Speech that is slanderous or harmful (incitement to violence) are things the government should deal with.

Crackpot speech? Most of the counterbalance there is that people will look at the guy shouting "I AM A MORON" from the mountaintop and saying "That guy really is a moron.".

Linden Lab shouldn't be endorsing it, but I'm not sure I want them determining who is a crackpot and muzzling them, either.

Same here, Milla. I just wish more of the people who seem to be able to influence the morons would start doing it for the side of light.

Vanity Pic!!!

ah young love... *sigh*

I watch Cops, Steven Segal:Lawman, Cake Boss and Pawn Stars, so maybe there is hope for me.

It's just that there is such a long and awful history...

Mentioning my Danish friend made me crave aebleskiver.

recipe please

As I said to Mo in another thread, when she made the same observation, I do my best work under pressure. We are in The End Days here so I have to get it all in for posteriority.